The central theme is the perennial fight between Hero and Demon. - The Marionettes

He lives in San Sebastián with his mother Maritxu (Ane Gabarain), the classic absorbent, dominant Basque matriarch who sees Iñaki as a perennial child unable to move forward in life on his own. - Allí abajo

Ramadasu, a devious zamindar who recently acquired the colonial title of "Rao Bahadur", is a perennial debtor who believes in leading a luxurious life on credit. - Appu Chesi Pappu Koodu

Rush faces a challenge of trying to compete against perennial powerhouses. - The Mighty Macs

The plot revolves around a fictitious Onion television news anchorman, Norm Archer (Len Cariou), who is forced to face the inevitability of a corporate takeover by the Onion's perennial fictitious multinational, Global Tetrahedron. - The Onion Movie

Wealthy art connoisseur Dwight Stanhope, his glamorous wife Christabel and his pretty daughters, sensible Betty and neurotic Eleanor, have invited a couple of guests to their mansion "Waldemere"; Vincent James, the "weekend perennial -- charming and a bit thick" and Nick Wood, an attractive young man about whom little is known. - The Gilded Man

She claims to have been "inoculated against" men and has no use for them, even her perennial suitor, newspaperman Len Chisholm. - The Hand in the Glove

Seeing her only break to be a professional actress, Daisy Fay, with mr Cecil's help, enters the Miss Mississippi pageant in Tupelo, Mississippi, once more meeting up with her perennial antagonist, Kay Bob Benson, who is also a competitor. - Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

One of the men, Nico (Jeffrey Hunter), is a seasoned, decorated sergeant; the second, Frankie (Robert Wagner), is a perennial goof-off, who drinks too much; and the third, Alan (Bradford Dillman), is an intellectual from a wealthy family. - In Love and War (1958 film)

Whatever their differences - be they good girl Sue, her varsity-athlete boyfriend Tommy Ross, her spoiled-rotten best friend Chris Hargensen, Chris' trouble-maker boyfriend Billy Nolan, or perennial misfit Carrie White - they are all wrestling with the same insecurities and united in their desire to belong ("In"). - Carrie (musical)

There, he meets the "District 5" peewee hockey team, perennial losers who finish at the bottom of the league standings year after year. - The Mighty Ducks (film series)

In his art classes, he forms a friendship with perennial loser, Bardo, who guides him through the college scene and introduces him to a failed artist, Jimmy, a belligerent drunk. - Art School Confidential (film)

Some time later, Rachel goes to Luce's shop and invites her to dinner with Hector and, unknown to Luce, Cooper, a perennial bachelor and self-professed Lothario. - Imagine Me &amp; You

When the institution must close due to budget cuts, Molly is left in the care of her non-autistic older brother, Buck McKay (Aaron Eckhart), an advertising executive and perennial bachelor. - Molly (1999 film)

Realizing that Christian rock is a perennial top seller, Cartman decides that his band, which he has christened Faith + 1, will join the Christian music racket. - Christian Rock Hard

Ned proves to be a good friend, and is a perennial admirer of Nancy's from then on. - The Clue in the Diary

But the energy it generates, analogous to nuclear power, is now used to power vehicles and accelerate the country's Industrial Revolution—much to the chagrin of perennial rivals France and a yet-to-be-united Germany. - Anti-Ice

In these situations, Bridget is often plagued with that perennial question "How's your love life. - Bridget Jones's Diary

Example sentences for "perennial" in interesting articles

Witness its practice of filling out tax forms for some sellers, letting the latter avoid one major bureaucratic headache that is a perennial gripe here; each of India\u2019s 29 states has a separate tax code, making cross-country shipping a laborious process. - Amazon Invades India

“I never knew how bad it could get.”The thread bounced around nerd circles for a bit before dying down, but it was just the latest example of the perennial grumbling by American programmers who are assigned to work on code that was crafted in Delhi or Mumbai. - Behind the 'Bad Indian Coder'

“I instead chose to tell you one that could have had a happy ending because it illustrates what has been, for me, a source of perennial frustration: at this date, we are not limited by the science; we are limited by our ability to make good use of the information and treatments we already have.” Here we have a paradox. - A disturbing report from the front lines of the war on cancer

As Peshine parents and teachers spoke, Anderson’s opponents held aloft signs saying “Paid for by Cami Anderson.” A Peshine teacher confronted Donna Jackson, an activist and perennial detractor of Booker and Anderson, asking why she would deride Newark teachers who were helping children. - A Test for School Reform in Newark

(By comparison, the dean at the University of Michigan Law School, a perennial top-10 institution, was reported to make less than half as much, $420,000, in 2013.) Meanwhile, the school’s graduates are burdened with crushing debt loads and job prospects only marginally less terrible than those of InfiLaw graduates. - The Law-School Scam

From the final chapters of Soviet history, we may begin to observe and puzzle through the perennial fact that, for many Western technologists and scholars, the promise of socialist collaboration shines brightest online today — a promise that the Soviet OGAS designers were among the first to foresee.
None of the conditions — technological, sociological, economic, or otherwise — for the flourishing of computer networks are necessarily as we may think. - How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet

Synonyms of "perennial"

repeated

recurrent

Antonyms of "perennial"

biennial

two year

one year

annual

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